Speaking of stunts, Alan Rickman was dropped a second early to get his true reaction to falling from the Nakatomi Plaza in Die Hard.

The floating pen in Kubricks 2001: A Space Odyssey wasn’t done with CGI, but camera trickery using glass and tape.

Tobey Maguire who played the character Spiderman, had a fear of heights!

Michael Myers mask in Halloween is just a Captain Kirk mask altered slightly and painted white.

Michael Fassbender is to produce and star in an Assassin’s Creed movie.

As a child, Johnny Depp was allergic to chocolate.

Disney once hired 11 little people to dress up as Pinocchio and greet children. After being left with an entire day’s worth of food and wine, the actors ended up naked and screaming obscenities at the crowd at the film’s premiere by mid-afternoon.

The Emperor’s New Groove was originally a much more serious and dramatic film called Kingdom of the Sun.

Actor Richard Gere's middle name is Tiffany.

The group Abba was originally intended to do the music for The Lion King, but they weren’t available, so Disney went with Elton John.

Those who own the DVD of Dodgeball will be aware that the happy-go-lucky finale full of lesbians and treasure may well have ended on more of a bleak note, simply cutting as Ben Stiller's White Goodman connects a ball right in Vince Vaughn's oversized face.

Paul Schrader wrote Taxi Driver in five days. It is rumoured he had a loaded gun by his desk for “inspiration and motivation”.

It’s claimed that his movements were partially modeled after MC Hammer.

The director of Cannibal Holocaust had to prove in court that the actors were still alive and didn’t get killed during the movie

Sulley from Monsters, Inc. originally had tentacles instead of legs. They were changed because it was thought tentacles would be distracting. The second version of the character was designed with legs, but no arms.

Despite Courtney's (unsurprisingly) batshit claims (see #72) Kurt Cobain did thank Quentin Tarantino in the liner notes to In Utero, allegedly due to the musician's love for Reservoir Dogs. QT returned the favour in the Pulp Fiction soundtrack notes by thanking Nirvana. Sadly, the timing of the release meant the thanks were followed by 'RIP Kurt'.

Lady GaGa’s bra size is 34B.

When it was released, The Lion King came under fire when people thought the word “SEX” could be read in a puff of dust during one scene. Animators claimed that the dust actually spells “SFX,” which is a nod to the film’s special effects team.